Geulah Cohen

Geulah Cohen (25 December 1925-18 December 2019) was a Likud MK from 1974 to 1979 and a Tehiya MK from 1979 to 1992.

Biography
Geulah Cohen was born in Tel Aviv, Israel on 25 December 1925, and she joined Irgun in 1942 and Lehi a year later. She was arrested by the British in 1946 while launching a radio broadcast, and, on 6 June 1946, she was sentenced to 7 years in prison. She escaped in 1947, and she wrote for the Israeli newspaper Maariv from 1961 to 1973, when she was elected to the Knesset as a Likud MK. In 1979, she and Moshe Shamir left Likud due to their disagreement with the Camp David Accords, co-founding Tehiya. She served as a Tehiya MK until she lost her seat in 1992, and she then rejoined Likud and remained active in right-wing politics. She died in 2019 at the age of 93.